Mid-year hobby check-up

Estamos en el ecuador del año, así que es un buen momento para echar un vistazo atrás y comprobar cuanto he avanzado de lo que me propuse en el post de los proyectos para 2021.

El objetivo de este año es bastante sencillo: pintar todo.

Por ahora llevo pintadas 44 miniaturas y me quedan 24.

Es decir, no llevo mal ritmo, pero claramente mucho mas lento que otros años. El motivo es sencillo, decidí dedicar muchísimo tiempo y esfuerzo pintando las figuras de Blood Bowl Second Season.

Voy a tomarme un mes largo de descanso en Julio así que no voy a avanzar nada hasta Agosto, pero veo bastante probable que pueda pintar las tres figuras de Fantasy, el Primarca, un par de figuras sueltas y el ejército de DBA.

Lo que veo mas complicado es que me de tiempo a preparar y pintar el Nazgul en bestia alada, el Balrog y Sumothay. Tal vez esos se quedan pendientes para 2022. Veremos...

Black Templars: Kill Team (IV)

This miniature is the last one (for now) for my Black Templars Kill Team.

He is a Librarian, so he can be field as a Commander of type Librarian in Kill Team.

As some of you may know, the Black Templars chapter do not have Librarians, but I really wanted to paint one, and also, I remembered that little fact when I had him already prepared and primed! So, I went through the lore of the Templars and found out that they do not have good relationships with most of other chapters, save for the successors of the Imperial Fists. Among those, probably the Crimson Fists are the ones with best relationship.

Therefore, I sat down and decided that my Crusader Kill Team got the task to help / retrieve a Librarian from the Crimson Fists Chapter that had uncover critical intel, and help him get safe back to his Chapter. That way, I can easily have him in my games as an ally.

The paint scheme is very different as you can see, since the Crimson Fists adhere to the Codex, and therefore the Librarians are clad in blue. I also did not want to add excessive weathering like the Black Templars have, so I decided to add some scratches on the armour, a little bit more than a few scratches on the leather cloth and some dust on the feet. He clearly stands out next to his Crusader colleagues, which is exactly what I wanted to have.

I tried using a decal for the shoulder pad but it was bending at weird angles so in the end, I was forced to freehand it. I am satisfied with the end result, there is a close-up below.

Painted in 2021

The whole gang

Black Templars: Kill Team (III)

Today I bring a small kitbash I did based on Lieutenant Calsius. As you can see from the pic below, the miniature is an Ultramarine. I needed to remove all of those seals and add a few other bits to make it closer to the crusader style of the Black Templars.

In Kill Team, I can use him as a Commander, either a Captain or a Lieutenant. In the Black Templars lore, he is a Veteran, part of the Sword Brethren. And that is why I painted the rims of the shoulder pads red.

The painting method is the same as what I did for the rest of the Kill Team, so there is nothing to mention.

Painted in 2021

Black Templars: Kill Team (II)

A while ago I showed here the very first miniatures of my Primaris-only Kill Team from the Black Templars Chapter.

After having painted the whole box of Blood Bowl I continue plowing through my pile of shame and next in line is the Kill Team.

Today I am sharing the Reavers. After the amount of time I spent on the Blood Bowl team, I was very happy to paint these guys fast and without worrying too much about details since I was looking for a grimdark Blanchitsu style with is not "beautiful and clean" but rather dirty and weathered.

Here is a quick overview of the painting recipe.

• The armour is painted by applying with dark grey some rough lights, then glazing everything with black. The crosses and details like handwriting are done after the glazing but before the weathering.
• Metals are painted TMM and then Nuln Oil on top.
• Leather is painted in various shades of brown starting from dark brown chocolate and adding dents and chips to simulate wear and tear.
• Shoulder plates and any other white details are painted with light grey, then details are done freehand, after that Agrax to weather it and some glazes of other colours to make it more rich, like oxide, yellow and orange and browns.
• Armour details: oxide (orange mixed with brown) glazing is applied between armour plates. Finally with medium grey some edge highlight is applied.
• The bases are like the ones from Walking Dead, with Astrogranite technical paint, some light grey drybrush, then some dark wash and finally some pigments that also cover partially the feet.

I am quite satisfied with how they turned out and the next one is already on the painting table!

Painted in 2021

Blood Bowl: Imperial Nobility

Here are the mighty Talabecland Royals!

I already explained in this post the source of the name and choice, in a nutshell, they are based on the real GFL Team of the Potsdam Royals and the Warhammer city I have chosen for them is Talabecland.

For this team I decided to pick quite a challenging colour scheme based on red and bright yellow. This is not common for me and to top it all I used white basecoat, which is also not common. All in all it was a headache to paint but at least I am happy with the end result.

Here are the colours used and the recipe.

For gold areas, use Bloodstone as base, then mix it slowly with higher percentage of Scrofulous Brown. Final highlights mixing in a little bit of Ice Yellow. Some dots of Arctic White for reflections.

Metal parts are done with Neutral Grey as base, then mixing in Wolf Grey for the highlights and German Grey for the shadows. Reflections and extreme lights are done with Arctic White and Ivory.

Ribbons are painted with Germany Grey, edge highlighted with Wolf Grey and final lights with Magic Blue.

For the skin, I use Beige red as base and mix more pale flesh to it for highlights.

Leather is done with Chocolate brown as base, then adding Beige red to the mix for highlights. Scratches and different shades of light are done with Beige and mixing in Bone white.

Yellow cloth is done painting Scrofulous Brown as base on top of white basecoat, and Ice Yellow lights on top of it.

Red armour is base coated with Burnt red, highlighted with burnt red mixed with flat red and final higlights mixing in Orange fire. Reflections are done with Ice Yellow and in some cases Arctic White.

More pictures can be seen in each of the individual posts:

• Linemen
• Bodyguards
• Throwers and Blitzers
• Ogre
• Griff

All painted in 2021

BB Second Season Challenge (XII)

And finally here is the great Griff Oberwald!

I am quite happy to share this one, as it is the last miniature for the Imperial Nobility.

I decided not to use the bird attached to the pointing finger, because I honestly think it does not look that good.

The paint scheme is similar to the rest of the team, but with a more shiny approach, I used more yellows and goldens to simulate that he is richer and a star, after all!

I hope you like him, next post will show the whole team.

Also, this marks a milestone for the year, I am roughly halfway through my painting goals.

Here is the post from DarthBLU and here the post to vote for them (Spanish forum).

Painted during 2021

BB Second Season Challenge (XI)

Finally, after quite a long -involuntary- break, here is the Ogre for the Imperial Nobility.

While I could have spent much more time doing proper blending on the metals, I was already quite tired and I wanted to get over it.

The overall look is quite nice, although the pictures ended up being quite saturated.

Here is the post from DarthBLU and here the post to vote for them (Spanish forum).

Painted during 2021